Author Archives: Sue Pascoe

Legal Fight Over DWP Billing: Officials Arrested

(Editor’s note: This is the second part of the story “LADWP Water Rates to Rise: City Has Legal Bills to Pay.” Yesterday CTN examined how the City is dependent on DWP for part of its annual budget. ) In 2013,...

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Posted in City/Councilman Mike Bonin | 3 Comments

Astronomer John Mulchaey Talks Telescopes/Aliens at Optimist Club Meeting

John Mulchaey, director of the Carnegie Observatories in Pasadena, was the guest speaker for the January 18 Pacific Palisades Optimist Club virtual meeting. One of the first questions that Optimists wanted to know:  Did he believe in UFOs? “I don’t...

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Posted in Geology/Dinosaurs/Earth | 2 Comments

LADWP Water Rates to Rise: City Has Legal Bills to Pay

(Editor’s note: this is the first of a two-part story about the Los Angeles Department of Water and Power and why customer rates are so high.) The biggest question is not whether your water bill is going to raise, it...

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Posted in City/Councilman Mike Bonin, News | 1 Comment

Local Historian Randy Young Donates $11,000 to Rustic Canyon Recreation Center

At the January 20 meeting, the L.A. Department of Recreation and Parks acknowledged Randy Young, a life-long Pacific Palisades resident and esteemed historian, for his $11,000 donation to Rustic Canyon Recreation Center. “Thank you to Mr. Young for his donation,”...

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Posted in Community, Parks | 2 Comments

Alan Eisenstock’s Playlist: Here’s the Cost

(Editor’s note: Palisadian Alan Eisenstock’s 19th book “Redeeming Justice” co-written with Jarrett Adams was named the Best Book of September by Amazon. “A consuming tale of a broken legal system, its trail of ruin and the fortitude needed to overcome...

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Posted in Music | 2 Comments

Historians & Foresters Plant an Oak to Honor the Town’s 100th Birthday

  The Historical Society and the Palisades Forestry Committee teamed up last Friday, January 14, to commemorate the 100th anniversary of the founding of Pacific Palisades. Gathering at Founders Oak Island on Haverford (across from the Pierson Playhouse), the two...

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Posted in Community, Geology/Dinosaurs/Earth, Real Estate | 1 Comment

Palisades Civic League Meets Monday

The Pacific Palisades Civic League will meet via Zoom on Monday, January 24, at 7:30 p.m. because of the current stay-at-home, social distancing edicts. (The meetings are generally held the fourth Monday of each month.) This is a perfect opportunity...

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Eventual Potrero Canyon Park Needs a PCH Crossing

Last July, State Senator Ben Allen told the Community Council that the state would give the City of Los Angeles $11 million to build a pedestrian bridge connecting Will Rogers State Beach and the George Wolfberg Park at Potrero Canyon. In...

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Residents Illegally Block Asilomar Boulevard

Circling the News received a query from an Asilomar Bluff resident and photos from another resident that showed road closure barriers along that road at sunrise. “Many people in the neighborhood who want to turn on to Asilomar on their...

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Posted in Parks, Real Estate | 2 Comments

Trifecta, Headed by Three PaliHi Students, Provides Financial Literacy for Teens

Trifecta Finance, the brainchild of Luke Shuman, a senior at Palisades High School, teaches financial literacy to students in South L.A. Shuman and two close PaliHi friends, Ian Ishak and Ari Bolloshimi, came up with the name Trifecta because they...

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Posted in Kids/Parenting, Schools | 1 Comment